Sebastiao Rodrigues

Sebastiao Rodrigues (1602-1685) was a Portuguese Jesuit priest who was sent as a Catholic missionary to Macau and Japan. In 1643, he was tortured into renouncing Christianity and becoming a Buddhist.

Biography
Sebastiao Rodrigues was born in Portugal in 1602, and he became a Jesuit priest. He studied under Alessandro Valignano and alongside Francisco Garupe at St. Paul's College in Macau, and, in 1638, they were sent to Japan to find Cristovao Ferreira, a Jesuit priest who was said to have renounced Christianity after being tortured.